Principal Process Engineer

Business Development/Marketing    
    Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by providing technical assistance to support Business Development and Marketing strategies
    Produce cost effective conceptual & timeous proposals 
    Determine customers requirements
    Communicate with customer and review customers enquiry documents and evaluate requirements and constraints
    Define the process/plant scope of work
    Produce the conceptual design and generate alternatives
    Produce and agree mass and energy balances and conceptual PFDs
    Contribute to basic design criteria document through preliminary equipment & motor list preliminary control criteria and major equipment & material specification

Project Life Cycle
    Provide Process engineering input to project implementation and Project set up
    Provide input to generate scope of work schedules and budgets
    Refine scope of work review contract and design discipline design criteria and engineering deliverables
    Define Battery limits and control and report scope variances
    Generate detail discipline schedules and review overall discipline requirements
    Contribute to procurement and identify long lead items
    Determine/prioritize work breakdown structure 
    Issue data to planner
    Review/co-ordinate & adhere to schedule of implementation
    Control and report variances
    Generate and develop detail discipline budgets and identify indirect/resource costs 
    Adhere to budget implementation and control and report budget variances
    Consolidate documentation for monthly project progress report
    Provide input to monthly discipline reports
    Provide feedback to functional manager

Design    
    Generate the following engineering deliverables:
    Detailed mass & energy balance
    Detailed PFDs
    Detailed equipment/motor list
    Equipment specifications
    Data Sheets (Develop & Approval)
    Operation & Control Philosophy
    Detailed functional specifications
    Write operating manual
    Generate detailed plant process guarantees
    Check and review design layouts including vendor packages
    Adhere to schedules and budgets
    Issue review and control final process design documentation
    Check and obtain approval of calculations and specifications
    Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs

Client Relations (Internal & External)    
    Prepare approved vendor list and issue enquiry documents
    Perform technical and commercial adjudication
    Obtain client approval
    Participate in pre-award meetings review quality plan and contract
    Review quality/expediting reports and witness key manufacturing hold points
    Provide technical backup for expediting team
    Proactively maintain information flow
    Attend co-ordination meetings
    Advise changes early
    Co-ordinate deliveries
    Adopt flexible approach
    Respond to needs of other disciplines
    Ensure awareness of Company vision and departmental goals/objectives

Plant commissioning    
    Produce and submit commissioning plan/manual
    Determine critical path and establish commissioning sequence/schedule
    Define and secure resources
    Define battery limits of commissioning
    Define commissioning systems/procedure
    Produce commissioning files including commissioning documentation
    Ensure commissioning meets project requirements
    Issue remedial inspection reports during construction
    Monitor installation and commissioning checklists
    Arrange and co-ordinate commissioning meetings
    Conduct on-site commissioning
    Provide technical back-up for site QA team
    Assist in performance testing in terms of design base
    Supervise and train operating personnel
    Contribute to close-out report and adhere to close out procedures
    Provide post-commissioning process support
    Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis
    Ensure regular visits/communications with client

Legislation Policies & Procedures
    Lead design reviews and Hazops 
    Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities
    Contribute to public participation process as per National Environmental Management Act (NEMA)
    Enforce process veto rights
    Maintain standards
    Adhere to and update Company standards
    Utilize engineering tools/systems

Continuous Improvement    
    Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs
    Review industry standards making use of network periodicals attending shows and conferences
    Identify areas of improvement
    Review all previous close-out report
    Review systems and procedures
    Recommend best practices
    Continuous professional development
    Identify and address training needs
 

Qualifications :

QUALIFICATIONS

•  Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy or Minerals Processing Degree from a recognized tertiary institution

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

A proven experience of 6 to 25 years experience executing projects in the EPC/EPCM environment; ideally within the mining and minerals (preferred) or petrochemical sector.

• Construction & Commissioning -Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers interactions
• Risk Analysis - Ability to identify project and activates risk from any point of view including knowledge of hazard and operation HAZOP
• Value Engineering - Ability to optimize a process by adding value either as saving in cost or simplifying the process
• Process Flow Diagrams - Ability to produce understand and deliver Process Flow diagrams
• Testing -Knowledge of testing techniques and procedures including specifications and interpretations of test works
• Equipment & Components - Knowledge of process control quality electrical etc. equipment specifications suppliers and features (including equipment installation and components)
• Legislation & Standards - Knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. Engineering safety reqs Audit regulations Insurance laws etc.) and knowledge standard specifications (e.g. Plant layout requirements etc.)  including the ability to integrate these standards.
• Technical Documentation - Ability to create understand and communicate technical specifications
• Economical Awareness - Knowledge of economic fundamentals and ability to make estimations and proposing alternatives
• Process Simulation -Ability to simulate processes by means of software or other methodologies
• Mass balance - Ability to calculate (using software and spreadsheets) the mass balance of a process
• Process Design Criteria - Knowledge of parameters required to design the process
• Piping & Instrumentation - Diagram        Ability to produce understand and deliver piping and instrumentation diagrams

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time